mamewah and cpviewer hang

[big daddy]

I've configured cpviewer..has a mockup image of my control panel and the labels created.  I set it up with options to open with a C and close with an X.  

I then configure it NOT to display on game startup in mamewah, but I do have it set in mamewah.ini so that when I press the key at the gameslist screen it should display.

So when I'm browsing the games I hit C and the CPViwer launches and it shows my control panel.  The problem is, when I push X (or any other letter) the cpviewer doesn't close.  I end up having to cntrl-alt-delete and end task to close it.  

Now the wierd part is it behaved exactly as I described above the first time I tried it.  Then later when I tried it again it worked perfectly (C opened it and X closed it) and I was able to use it repeatedly.  But now it appears to not be working again (i.e. it opens correctly, but doesn't close).

Anyone have any suggestions?

[screaming]

Maybe it's a focus issue? try hitting alt-tab, then X...
-Steve

[Minwah]

Maybe it's a focus issue? try hitting alt-tab, then X...

Yeah, or click the mouse...

I assume you configured the X key in CPViewer?

[Popcorrin]

I continually had the same problem with CPViewer.  I switched to Johnny5 and it has been much more stable.

[big daddy]

I've been searching around for johnny5 download and can't seem to find it.  Can someone post a link to it for me?

[mahuti]

I've had endless problems with CPviewer & recent versions of mamewah in windows 98. It doesn't like to read files in and out very well it seems.

[papaschtroumpf]

I've been searching around for johnny5 download and can't seem to find it.  Can someone post a link to it for me?

Search is your friend: http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus/files/johnny5_0.6beta.zip

[jcrouse]

I'll look into the CPViewer focus problem this weekend. What exactly does it do? Also, I'm loading a Windows 98 box so I can test some of the issues that some users seem to be having with CPViewer and Windows 98 and generationg the games.ini file.

Thanks for the input,
John

[Minwah]

I had a problem the other day with CPVGeneric - any key should quit but I found occasionally (~1/5 times) it would not quit.  Clicking the mouse and then hitting a key would work, indicating that it had lost focus...

But it seems to work fine today, so maybe it was just me!  

[big daddy]

I'll look into the CPViewer focus problem this weekend. What exactly does it do?

I'm not sure the problem I described in the original post is a focus problem.  Because even clicking with the mouse, alt-tab ing, etc...never gets me focus back where X will close cpviewer.  Not sure what's going on though, because like I said in the original post...it did work for a little while.

FYI - I'm running XP home and the previous version of mamewah (haven't upgraded to the latest yet).

[jcrouse]

Did you configure an exit key in CPViewer under the Tools/Options menu?

John

[big daddy]

yes, I configured the exit key to be X and the launch to be C.  I configured it in mamewah and when browsing the list of games I hit C and it opens ok.  But hitting X didn't do anything.  I tried this several times with the same affect.  Later in the day I had stopped and started mamewah for various reasons and tried again and it worked (C would close it).  I did it several times and it worked several times.  I shut the machine down that day and the next day tried again and it was hanging again (X wouldn't close it).  

Not sure what the problem is though.   One thing I just thought of..is that exit key case sensitive?  Maybe I put a capital X in the options and the reason it was working for awhile was because caps locks might have been on?  

[deadmoney5]

same problem here with mamewah 1.51

is there a fix in 1.52?

I just resorted to opening the controls at game launch..never hangs there